Showing teeth to the dragons
Subtitle: state-building by Colombian president Alvaro Uribe Velez, 2002-2006
By: Harvey F. Kline.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780817316716; 9780817355593
Subjects: Uribe Vélez, Álvaro, -- 1952-; Nation-building -- Colombia; Colombia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alvaro Uribe Velez and moving a traditional state; title: State-building in the twenty-first century : the government of Alvaro Uribe Velez, 2002-2006; title: Rewards and punishments; title: The policies of democratic security; title: The law of justice and peace; title: The peace processes with the paramilitary and guerrilla groups; title: The paramilitary demobilization; title: The beginning of progress with the Army of National Liberation (ELN); title: The failure with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (fARC); title: A comparison of the three negotiation processes; title: Conclusions : changes in the Colombian political system during the first term of Alvaro Uribe.